# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1940
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38782 "2018-08-29T15:53:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “According to a conspiracy theory network popular among some Trump boosters, when McCain supposedly died on Saturday, he did not succumb to cancer but took his own life to avoid being hauled off to Guantanamo Bay and put before a military tribunal for his longtime work helping Islamic State terrorists and others. (And before he died, he concealed his criminal ankle bracelet by wearing a medical boot on his leg.) > …” > Remember the guy who shot Reagan? He used to be the benchmark, right there with Manson, for crazy. Now people at that level of crazy are taking pictures with the pres. in the oval office. Next Republican onvention they’ll be giving speeches. Holy shit! These people are complete nutters! And sadly, as you pointed out, these lunatics have political clout nowadays… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38783 "2018-08-29T16:25:32Z")
Duncan Hunter [then and now](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-me-ducan-hunter-wife-20180829-story.html): > [@](#): > > On Thursday, Hunter said of his wife to a Fox News reporter: “She handled my finances throughout my entire military career and that continued on when I got into Congress … She was also the campaign manager. Whatever she did, that’ll be looked at too, I’m sure, but I didn’t do it."… > > But on Tuesday, after Hunter’s apparent attempt to blame his wife became an internet meme, he told KGTV News in San Diego: “Leave my wife out of it, leave my family out of it. It’s me they’re after, anyway. They’re not after my wife; they want to take me down, that’s what they’re up to. So let’s get this in the arena and have this settled."… ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38784 "2018-08-29T16:32:50Z")
I’ll just put this one here since Trump is a Republican and he is stupid. [Lawyer uses Trump’s flipping argument](http://time.com/5380651/defense-lawyer-tried-trumps-argument-flipping-illegal/) Of course lawyers are going to jump on that. Won’t get anywhere, of course, but hey, the President believes it so why not? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38785 "2018-08-29T17:57:27Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Duncan Hunter [then and now](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-me-ducan-hunter-wife-20180829-story.html): Leaving the wife out of it is one thing, leaving the campaign manager out is something else altogether. She was both. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38786 "2018-08-30T02:31:45Z")
Instead of a “Days Since Last Racist Outburst” sign, [it looks like](https://american-ledger.com/accountability/desantis-moderates-hate-filled-facebook-group-that-attacks-african-americans-parkland-survivors-and-muslims/) Ron DeSantis is going to need a “Minutes Since Last Racist Outburst” stopwatch: > [@](#): > > Ron DeSantis, the Trump-endorsed congressman who won Tuesday’s GOP primary for Florida governor, is an administrator on an active Facebook group where conservatives share racist, conspiratorial and incendiary posts about a litany of targets, including black Americans and South Africans, the “deep state,” survivors of February’s massacre at a Florida high school, immigrants, Muslims and, in recent days, John McCain. Update: He quit the group after [DELETE] getting busted [/DELETE] rethinking it. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38787 "2018-08-30T03:48:42Z")
I look forward to DeSantis’s future speeches. “It will be a black day if Gollum is elected! If I may call a spade a spade, it’ll be like missing an easy shot at a treed coon! Nigger! Oops!” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38788 "2018-08-30T04:20:40Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Instead of a “Days Since Last Racist Outburst” sign, [it looks like](https://american-ledger.com/accountability/desantis-moderates-hate-filled-facebook-group-that-attacks-african-americans-parkland-survivors-and-muslims/) Ron DeSantis is going to need a “Minutes Since Last Racist Outburst” stopwatch: > > Update: He quit the group after [DELETE] getting busted [/DELETE] rethinking it. Don’t spell out the word DELETE, just DEL in the brackets. No space before or after the DEL in the brackets. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38789 "2018-08-30T19:14:34Z")
Pro-Trump journalist says her surfing accident was caused by Hillary. > **[Pro-Trump journalist: My recent surfing injury was caused by Hillary...](https://deadstate.org/pro-trump-journalist-my-recent-surfing-injury-was-caused-by-hillary-clintons-witchcraft/)** > > Liz Crokin is a reminder that the dumbest corners of the pro-Trump web are still wielding influence over gullible people. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38790 "2018-08-30T19:35:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pro-Trump journalist says her surfing accident was caused by Hillary. > [Pro-Trump journalist: My recent surfing injury was caused by Hillary Clinton’s ‘witchcraft’ – DeadState](http://deadstate.org/pro-trump-journalist-my-recent-surfing-injury-was-caused-by-hillary-clintons-witchcraft/) I was hopin’ fer much more bodily harm than just a couple of fingertips, dagnabbit! I gotta whip up a much more potent spell. Need more magickal mojo! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38791 "2018-08-30T19:50:57Z")
[SRIOTD #what-the-fuck-ever-we’re-up-to-now](https://apnews.com/4f9fc2487e8c4c9a94703e32029bd91c/Man-threatened-to-kill-newspaper-staff-over-Trump-editorials): > [@](#): > > A California man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday for threatening to travel to the newspaper’s offices and kill journalists, whom he called the “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said. > > Prosecutors say 68-year-old Robert Chain’s threatening phone calls to the Globe’s newsroom started immediately after the Globe appealed to newspapers across the country to condemn what it called a “dirty war against the free press.” > > The day the editorials were published , Chain, of Encino, told a Globe staffer that he was going to shoot employees in the head at 4 o’clock, according to court documents. That threat prompted a police response and increased security at the newspaper’s offices. > > After the editorials ran, authorities say Chain said he would continue threatening the Globe, The New York Times and “other fake news” as long as they continue their “treasonous and seditious acts” in attacking Trump. > > Several times, he called Globe employees the “enemy of the people,” a characterization of journalists that Trump has used in the past. > > It was not immediately clear if Chain has an attorney. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38792 "2018-08-30T20:22:26Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I look forward to DeSantis’s future speeches. > > “It will be a black day if Gollum is elected! If I may call a spade a spade, it’ll be like missing an easy shot at a treed coon! Nigger! Oops!” You know how Trump gets so much mileage out of “LOCK! HER! UP!”? Well, “STRING! HIM! UP!” is certainly a nice play on that, and exactly the kind of thing needed to get Liberals angry. Because we all know that, in the real world, making your opponents angry automatically means you win. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38793 "2018-08-30T20:32:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pro-Trump journalist says her surfing accident was caused by Hillary. > [Pro-Trump journalist: My recent surfing injury was caused by Hillary Clinton’s ‘witchcraft’ – DeadState](http://deadstate.org/pro-trump-journalist-my-recent-surfing-injury-was-caused-by-hillary-clintons-witchcraft/) My GOD, she is powerful! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38794 "2018-08-30T22:31:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pro-Trump journalist says her surfing accident was caused by Hillary. > [Pro-Trump journalist: My recent surfing injury was caused by Hillary Clinton’s ‘witchcraft’ – DeadState](http://deadstate.org/pro-trump-journalist-my-recent-surfing-injury-was-caused-by-hillary-clintons-witchcraft/) You’re mighty generous with the term “journalist,” ain’t ya? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38795 "2018-08-31T01:25:12Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > You know how Trump gets so much mileage out of “LOCK! HER! UP!”? Well, “STRING! HIM! UP!” is certainly a nice play on that, and exactly the kind of thing needed to get Liberals angry. You joke…but that may be next. “OBAMA was spying on my campaign…hang him from a lamppost!” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38796 "2018-08-31T03:14:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You’re mighty generous with the term “journalist,” ain’t ya? Just implying that she is a vertebrate is questionable: \*Liz Crokin believes Satanic pedophiles want to kill us with vaccines and chemtrails. She’s theorized that JFK Jr. faked his death and is now the person behind the QAnon conspiracy theory. She says the mudslides that destroyed Oprah Winfrey’s home were God’s punishment for opposing Trump. She also says there’s a Hillary Clinton sex tape out there that proves Pizza Gate is real.… \* She claims that some people are about to write a hit piece on her, but how much work would that be beyond just quoting her? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38797 "2018-08-31T03:20:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pro-Trump journalist says her surfing accident was caused by Hillary. > [Pro-Trump journalist: My recent surfing injury was caused by Hillary Clinton’s ‘witchcraft’ – DeadState](http://deadstate.org/pro-trump-journalist-my-recent-surfing-injury-was-caused-by-hillary-clintons-witchcraft/) On the one hand, who cares, it’s just some random nutter on the interwebs. Plenty of those to go around. But on the other hand, where else in the first world but fucking America would someone unironically yell “witchcraft” !" ?! Jesus almighty, this shit is embarrassing to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38798 "2018-08-31T04:10:16Z")
Alex Jones says the trans porn on his phone was a pop up ad. > **[wokesloth.com](http://ww38.wokesloth.com/alex-jones-porn-phone-pop-up-ddt/jessi/)** > > This domain may be for sale! ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38799 "2018-08-31T08:23:31Z")
Could be worse, Alex, could be worse. My phone seems to have been infected with pop up ads for asexual porn. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38800 "2018-08-31T09:45:21Z")
[Now we have photographic proof of one side wanting to control the narrative so badly that they’ll try and prevent any public record of things that don’t fit into it](https://apnews.com/00314ff4578f462d8fa5167dc7de9d1b/Trump-volunteer-blocks-news-photographer's-shot-of-protester). > [@](#): > > A volunteer member of the advance team for President Donald Trump blocked a photojournalist’s camera as he tried to take a photo of a protester during a campaign rally in Indiana. > > A photo taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci on Thursday in Evansville shows the volunteer stretching out his hand over the lens of a news photographer’s camera after a protester disrupted Trump’s campaign event. > > Trump paced on stage at the Ford Center as the protester was led out. > > His campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment late Thursday. Trump didn’t say “wait, let him take pictures”, I note. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38801 "2018-08-31T09:52:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Now we have photographic proof of one side wanting to control the narrative so badly that they’ll try and prevent any public record of things that don’t fit into it](https://apnews.com/00314ff4578f462d8fa5167dc7de9d1b/Trump-volunteer-blocks-news-photographer's-shot-of-protester).Trump didn’t say “wait, let him take pictures”, I note. Harassing, assaulting, or disrupting the fact-gathering media makes you wrong. Just wrong, in a metaphysical sense. Wrong in that history will judge you to be wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1939) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1941)